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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Running your Drupal site locally

To work with Drupal, you need to have a local development environment. The local development environment should be able to help you mimic your production environments, such as having access to specific PHP versions, database versions, Redis, and other services.

To achieve this, we will be using Docker. We will not be interacting directly with Docker but through a tool called DDEV. DDEV is an abstraction on top of Docker that provides sensible defaults for running a Drupal site locally yet the flexibility to extend and add additional services.

DDEV is similar to Laravel’s Sail but supports various PHP projects that originated from the Drupal community.

Getting ready

You will need to install Docker:

  • macOS and Windows require the use of Docker Desktop since containers do not run natively on either operating system: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop
  • Linux runs Docker natively; it is best to see DDEV’s curated...